Google Nest 2 home device to track sleep and body activity in bed. Nanoleaf Smart LED Panels offers customizable mood-adaptable lights. And… Apple smart home: HomePod retired, what should we expect next? Check out these stories and more in this week’s top smart home news for March 29, 2021.
The new Google Nest Hub will track users’ body activity in bed to generate personalized sleep-tracking reports. The device’s radar-based scanning technology detects movement, including coughing and snoring, as well as light and temperature changes. But the new features have been criticized for collecting data when users are “most vulnerable”.
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Apple is a company that likes to control the entire ecosystem, from the hardware to the software, even the services and, with iPhones and the latest Macs, the processors too. This approach is at odds to a smart home market packed with thousands of products from hundreds of companies, almost all of which work with Alexa and Google Home.
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